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STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK.

With the government shutdown now in its third week, a sign turns away tourists at the entrance to the Capitol Visitor Center, in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Democrats, holding out for health care, ready to reject government funding bill for 10th time

October 15, 2025

Senate Democrats are poised for the 10th time to reject a stopgap spending bill that would reopen the government. They are insisting they won’t back away from demands that Congress take up health care benefits. The repetition of votes on the funding bill has become a daily drumbeat in Congress. It underscores how intractable the situation has become as the vote has at times been the only item on the agenda for the Senate floor. House Republicans have left Washington altogether. The impasse has lasted over two weeks, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed, even more without a guaranteed payday and Congress essentially paralyzed.

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Early morning cloudy skies over the U.S. Capitol during the 8th day of the government shutdown on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Senate vote tests Trump’s authority to strike vessels he says are carrying drugs

October 8, 2025

The Senate is voting on legislation to put a check on President Donald Trump’s ability to use deadly military force against drug cartels. Democrats and at least one Republican are trying to counter the administration’s extraordinary assertion of presidential war power to destroy vessels in the Caribbean. Congress is constitutionally responsible for making declarations of war, but the Trump administration has asserted that drug traffickers are armed combatants threatening the United States and its use of military force is legally justified. The U.S. military has carried out four strikes on vessels in the Caribbean. The White House says those have killed 21 people and stopped narcotics from reaching the U.S.

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President Donald Trump walks to speak with reporters after greeting supporters before departing the White House, Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Government shutdown draws closer as congressional leaders head to the White House

September 28, 2025

Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are heading to the White House in a late effort to avoid a government shutdown. But both sides have shown hardly any willingness to budge. If government funding legislation is not passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday night, many government offices will be temporarily shuttered and non-exempt federal employees will be furloughed. Republicans are daring Democrats to vote against legislation that would keep government funding mostly at current levels. But Democrats are holding firm and using one of their few points of leverage to demand action on extending health care benefits.

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